Mitro was man of the match last week for me, even though his touch and hold up play weren’t great and he didn’t dominate his opponents in the air. His attitude and battling qualities were just the ticket.

it’s hard to estimate the reticence a defensive midfield has to come forward, when you have a strong and assertive forward bullying the rearward ranks. Mitrovic tired unfortunately, and his going off coupled with multi-million fresh legs for Chelsea took that pressure off them and back on us Nitro could indeed be a Shearer – like number 9 in time.

Mind I have to say although I am not certain about refs siding with the top sides, Chelsea players got away with an extraordinarily shocking amount of round the body leg sweeps and high kicks. And I doubt mitrovic would have gone unnoticed if he had took out a Chelsea player like Oscar wiped out DeJong

As mitrovic looks to be leading the front line, is it safe to assume cisse will be sold soon. Mite as well sell for half the price if we can get it. Although I always thought mitrovic & cisse would be a good strike force. If mcclaren would play two up front rather than one

Is Kets around 🙂 Another tough game tomorrow.Don’t think we win but if we score first,we will have a chance to take something out of it.If you are leading 2-0 comfortabley against a top 4 team for more than 75min,what more can u expect to do other than bringing defensive type of players and closing things down? McLaren was wrong in his game plan agt Chelsea for bringing in Toney when he had other defender options.Raises question mark on his identity & credentials! Anyway,hope he learnt from it and hopefully we surprise city tomorrow.Still eagerly waiting our first win.Felt like Perez will surprise us again, with one of those beauty goals 🙂

if we play with attitude against chelsea, i’m sure we will get good result against city (draw = good result). I think we will play 4231, Gini will play deeper role along side Anita, could be Thauvin or SDJ replacing Colback. if we go with 442 then it will be Thauv, 4231 then SDJ.

Thauvin was bought, I thought, to play the way City do. Tricky, fast, penetrative. Did they spend that kind of money to get a dud? Are they that naive? I mean we’re talking millions here. He’s supposed to be an upgrade on Cabella, who was pretty good, so this guy should have what he was missing.

Mitro aint that good in the air he really wins the balls coming from Krul. He makes a presence but doesnt win those balls may b Mcca can do better to train him. He is no Caroll or Shola or D. Ferguson.

He can’t raise up and win that ball from the GK. He lost at Smalling and Cahill. But we he gets ahead of u he will hold u down and chest the ball. I dont think he knows the knock downs.

On the positive side he knows how to hold the play for all to be involved in. I also haven’t seen his positioning and runs in to the box. But he has a powerful header towards goal.

I believe the red card has helped in mellowing down Mitro. Its obvious the kid loves to play and watching from the sidelines seems to have had him gutted. That being said, I still feel we should have appealed the red cuz there wasn’t any malice or intent behind the challenge. But then again, its probably only the “Arse”nal’s and Chelshit’s who get their reds rescinded.

Anyway, all said and done, let’s c how we play against City. Hopefully Mitro puts in the same shift. He cud definitely have a long future with us. Mebbe even a future captain… At least he’s got more heart and voice than the shaggy haired mime who has the armband now

Thauvin is a disappointment so far. But he is one of the high prospects we have its down to Mcca and Cathro to see what is wrong with him. Him and Aarons I have high hopes but nothing yet.

4-4-2 balanced our team there were no gaps and we looked too comfortable. Wijnaldum looked out of place but still he is no winger wen Ober came on u cld see the shape was good and its our formation. Pliz Mcca dont change it.

McC said after the Arse game Mitro tried to apologise but was to emotional and full of regret too speak. I’m a huge fan of his already. Could do with a goal. A header would be good. The first of many I predict.

“It’s now very obvious that Newcastle missed new signing Aleksandar Mitrovic in the three games he missed ”

NO IT IS NOT VERY OBVIOUS! We conceded 2 goals v Westham and 2 goals v Watford That means Mitrovic would have had to score at least 4 goals in those games to have made a difference to the overall outcome Mitrovic has scored so far scored ZERO goals Stop clutching at straws Mitrovic has potential but he is not the saviour you are making him out to be We need a solid defence first and foremost if we want to secure our first win of the season Whilst colocinni remains in the team i do not see this happening

It doesn’t follow at all that we’d have shipped two apiece against West Ham and Watford, and certainly nor been equally rubbish had Mitrovic played. In fact, all the indicators being we did in fact miss his substantial presence considerably, so duff was Cisse in his stead..

Jimmy, Agreed. Mitrovic playing in those games would have enabled us to keep the ball better higher up the park. It would have added greater intent to our possession and has the potential to change what happened considerably. Still, Colo has been at fault for some of the goals, but then so have most of the back line, Anita and Colback, so…….

As for tomorrow, it looks like Kompany will miss out again. Great news for us, without him they look a far poorer side – the difference having a strong, commanding leader and centre back on the pitch can make.

will die@17. As poorly worded as your post is, there is some sense to it. Mitrovic looks like a striker who wants the ball crossed in rather than punted down to him. As you seem to be saying, he wants to go for goal, and not just nod it down for someone else. All the more reason for McLaren and co. to sort out some wide service for him. Obertan, Thauvin, Aarons – all wingers, supposedly. If none of them can be relied upon to provide a steady diet of decent crosses then fingers need to be pointed at management, on a number of levels.

I like that Mitrovic seems to be learning from his mistakes, but you can see his words being thrown back in his face by some if he gets sent off again.

Overrated, Like most strikers, Mitrovic will need good service. Mitrovic is best when he can attack the ball so getting width and hitting the byline will be of great benefit to him.

We really have to hope Thauvin can get up to speed, he isn’t slow from what I saw of him in France, and many journalists labelled him as very quick when he joined so I can only assume there are some underlying fitness issues for him at the moment. If he doesn’t come good then I don’t really see where the service will come from unless we rely on Janmaat and switch to wing backs.

Apologies if this has been discussed previously, but it made me sick to see Delle Ali called up to the England squad. Another masterpiece of incompetence from Charnley and Carr to not get him signed when we had a realistic chance. Yes, playing for a London club was probably his preferred option, but if these idiots had allocated a decent chunk of the 13 mill. they wasted on Thauvin to get him here it surely could have happened. Absolutely pathetic and symptomatic of the incredible ineptitude of those charged with making the decisions at this club.

Jesper, The thing with Thauvin is he hasn’t thrived for about 3 years. He just hasn’t kicked on from the kid who made his Grenoble and then Bastia bows.

He is 22 and we are his fifth club. The kid needs to knuckle down and put in the work in training to prove he was more than just a talented youth. He won’t have been settled anywhere given his transfer history, so need time and an opportunity to settle and work on his game.

He wasn’t the ideal signing for now – which was what we needed imo – but if we can get him to work on his game and develop then he does have very good potential. Can we afford him the time to do it out of the limelight? Not really.

We really need to sort out our wingers. Mitro has shown he is very good with his head. Thauvin fast I really dont think so he was falling behind in our counter attacks may dont know if he is not match fit.

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